When I turn on an award show, I don’t want to be lectured about politics, climate change or the NRA or a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue.
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, ‘Go away, this is an adult conversation.’
I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.
If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.
We don’t dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can’t win.
When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.
Politics has become so polarised. We’re stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?
A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?
The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don’t really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission.
I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
I’m not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
‘Rakta Charitra’ was more about human conflict than politics.
